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	Amazon Cloud Drive: 7 Key Facts Amazon.com this week announced a brand new online storage service and associated Web-based music player, called Amazon Cloud Drive and Amazon Cloud Player, respectively. CIO.com's mobile maestro Al Sacco breaks down what you need to know about new cloud service--the good and the bad. Read More WHITE PAPER: Dell Is Virtualization safe for business critical applications? The benefits of Tier 1 virtualization for small and medium-sized organizations are undeniable: Increased business agility, greater efficiencies and lower cost, to name a few. Learn how Dell and VMware are enabling better performance and reliability for applications in the virtual infrastructure. Read Now In this Issue Federal Grand Jury Investigates Smartphone Privacy Windows Phone 7 Rises to No. 2? No Way in the World Data Caps: How Long Can Verizon, Sprint Offer Unlimited Plans? Android's 5 Next Challenges BlackBerry PlayBook to Run Android Apps: What It Means to You AT&T Hikes IPhone Early Upgrade Prices Why BlackBerry PlayBook is an Ideal Tablet for Business Android Tips: 7 Ways to Get Around Your Phone Faster Android Battery Basics: How to Make Your Google Phone Last Longer BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) 5.0.3 for Exchange, Domino Finally Available WHITE PAPER: Dell Virtualization raised by the power of 2 Mid-sized businesses need the benefits of virtualization as much as the enterprise does. But they need a form of virtualization that is inexpensive to deploy, simple to manage, and easy to scale. Microsoft and Dell have packaged together a comprehensive virtualization offering that delivers these benefits and a lot more. Click to Continue Federal Grand Jury Investigates Smartphone Privacy A federal grand jury may be looking into the privacy practices of smartphone applications such as Pandora Internet Radio for iPhone and Android devices. Pandora recently revealed in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission that it was asked to hand over documents to the investigative body. The company was told it was not a target of the investigation and said it believes other smartphone app publishers received similar subpoenas. Read More Windows Phone 7 Rises to No. 2? No Way in the World IDC's prediction that Windows Phone 7 will rise from the bottom to surpass RIM and Apple is more fantasy than reality. Read More Data Caps: How Long Can Verizon, Sprint Offer Unlimited Plans? Data caps on nearly all wireless and wired networks in the U.S. seem likely to be in place soon, even though Verizon Wireless and Sprint continue to make unlimited data offers. Read More WHITE PAPER: Adobe CIOs Cite Critical Customer Priorities New IDG research reveals that good customer service is not enough. In order to maintain a competitive edge, organizations must provide a consistent, relevant customer experience across all communication channels – Web, call center, email, etc… to boost revenue, increase customer loyalty and provide compelling customer interactions. Read More! Android's 5 Next Challenges After months of outselling the iPhone and Blackberry phones, Google's Android finally has a bigger share of the U.S. smartphone market. According to comScore, 33 percent of U.S. smartphone subscribers owned an Android phone as of February 2011, compared to 28.9 percent market share for Blackberry and 25.2 percent for iPhone. Read More BlackBerry PlayBook to Run Android Apps: What It Means to You RIM's BlackBerry PlayBook tablet will support certain Google Android applications, but performance could be an issue. Here's expert analysis on what this news means to you--as a PlayBook owner, software developer or IT administrator--from CIO.com's Al Sacco. Read More AT&T Hikes IPhone Early Upgrade Prices AT&T has confirmed that it will boost the price of iPhone upgrades by $50 for customers that haven't reached the end of their contracts starting on Sunday. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP Planning for Higher Education Data Center Networks HP's extensive, modular data center networking portfolio drives simplicity through streamlined network designs and centralized management. In this paper, we'll lay out the challenges higher education is facing with complexity and expenses and how HP is the right partner to help solve them. Read now Why BlackBerry PlayBook is an Ideal Tablet for Business The BlackBerry PlayBook is available for pre-order, and will be on the street in a matter of weeks. I am not sure the RIM tablet will see much consumer success, but then consumers have never been RIM's primary market. Consumer tablets aside, the PlayBook has some unique features that make it an ideal tablet from a business or IT admin perspective. Read More Android Tips: 7 Ways to Get Around Your Phone Faster Whether you just picked up a brand new Android smartphone or you're simply looking to get the most out of your current Google device, these seven basic tips and tricks will have you speeding around your handheld, doing more than you thought possible, in no time. Read More Android Battery Basics: How to Make Your Google Phone Last Longer Extend your Android device's battery life and do more on the go with these quick and easy tips, from CIO.com's mobile expert Al Sacco. Read More BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) 5.0.3 for Exchange, Domino Finally Available Today, BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion (RIM) finally released a long-awaited update to its BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) software, BES 5.0 Service Pack 3, a.k.a., BES 5.0.3. Read More
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